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tiie western carolinian published every saturday mokmnc asjjjjj^iji sidwji ai!j it*us)^j*li wo jlÂ±mj?'jdll editors and proprietors y*uinbi r 7 of volume 16 salisbury north carolina july ih 1835 numwv i'vinm w'puumg 78v from the national intelligencer a nni i.s i emphasis that the holy bible mis a humbug . und lluit all professors of religion were inly hy pocrites whose sule object vva io nil their bellies will beef and pudding i listened with horror and astonishment â€” horror lhal any civilized or human being should openly profess a belief ... such doc the english the primitive language op the world such is the title of a in morons chapter in the miscellanies of lhat strange creature dean swift ll i above eighteen yeur ago since i road it and it was only recalled to my mind lhe other day by reading soineof the articles of your grammatical correspondents i am not one of those who aflecl to despise the learned labors of etymologists ; who not satisfied with drinking of ihe stream must trnee it to its source it is a lauduhlo curiosity i l there nre more unprofitable " hunting excur sions " than his " who starts a word and hunts it in the dark through groeco mnl rome innl into noah's ark bit lhe dean of sl patrick bel down every tiling as i'.ur game and showed as little mercy lo etymologists us he did lo any other class of wor thies he commences bis chapter i remember by stuting as u provable fact thut the hebrew nor il welch wa tin primitive language of our race but the english and he then proceeded to adduce in proofs some of ihem sufficiently droll li may nol be unamusing to vour readers to give ihem from in mi rv , a specimen of these proofs motei mow-seas lie cut out the red sea into iwo purls isaac eyes ache having been trouble i with much pam in rise es previous to his tolal blindness a ruin in the creek : androttuiche andrew mackie was called af ter her pan ml a scotchman alexander the great all eggs under lie urate tin emperor wns very fond of poached eggs ami when the searvnnts of the kitchen â€” thokitchen ca binet of oilier days â€” saw bim approaching they were wont to exclaim " all e^os un lor the grate ! " bucephalus busy fellows alexander's steed was alien led by a vast number of groom who were always busy aboul him and hence tlie term which described the holders came to he applied to the horse itself â€” liiisy-fclltncs peloponnesus 1'a.l up nuclease us the inha bitants had to letch their waler in pails front a con siderable dtsliu.ee without the city whenever thoy in t wilh a stranger they put down iheir pails and addressed him in this phrase pail up and ease us hence the place was so culled by fo reigners spol t n hy mis chapman at the benefit 1411111 in j sheridan knowles at the wa theatre \ york t>,i tin th nf jntl l^;i.v â€” writifii l.v uborqb i moa&ia editor nl tliu new vork mirror nay t mr simson â€” ' l*is not km 1 â€” polite â€” tu shut tut out ir â€” i'm 111 bucll a fright ! â€” i cannol speak the tines i'm mire oh vol to say i must â€” bm it i must â€” i'll iry i prom linn i turn to uiese more gunerous souls tho drama's patrons and uie vienna of know lea why what a brilliant galaxy is bore what stars adorn this mimic k hemisphere ! names thut shino brightest on our country's page ! the props of science â€” literature â€” iim stage : above â€” hi low â€” an mini nk â€” woman smiles the fairest flowerul of these western wilds â€” all come to pay the tribute of their praise to tin aral dramatist of modern days and welcome tu uie green homo al hie iroej u ith heart and hand the bard of liberty ! his is a wizard wand ii potent spell broke tin deep slumber ol the patriot ivi1 1 ami placed inui mi his native hills again the pride and glory of his fellow men the poet speaks â€” tin rome virginia bleeds i > i ( niiih gracchus in tin brum pleads ! alfred the great because the good ami wise bids prostrate england bursl her bowls and rise ! sweet bess the beggar's daughter beauty's queen walks forth the joy and woder of tteacenco the hunchback enters â€” kindly â€” and â€” severe and last behold the glorious wife appear these are the blight creations of a mind glowing with genius chastened and refined in all he's written bu this praise his lot not one word dying would he wish to blotl i jnÂ»n mv life tis no such easy thing to land the bard unless an eagle's wing my music would take and li xing on the sun i ler burning eye soar as ins own has donu ! did you speak sir '. â€” whut madam did he say i wrangling for shame ! â€” before your wedding uuy nay gentle lady by thine ryes of blue awl vermeil blushes i did not mean you bless me what friends at every glance 1 see artists and authors â€” men of high degree grave politicians who have weighed uach chance â€” the nexl election und the war with france doctors just come from curing halt a score and belles from killing twice as many more judges recorders aldermen and mnyors heated like true republicans down stairs all wear a glow ofsunsbine in their to a might well become apollo and tlie graces except one yonder with a look infernal like a blurr d page from fanny komblu's journal ! hiit to my task the muse when 1 began spoke of the wnier â€” welcome ye the man genius at best sets bul an humble part unless obedient to an honest heart and such 11 one is ins for whom tonight these walls are crowded Â« ith tins c.h ering sijrlit ve love the poet â€” nil have oonn'd h.m o'er â€” knew ye tlm man yo'd lovs hun ten times more ve critics spare hun trom your tongue and tjiiill ve gods applaud him and ye lops be still 1 ...Â»-. of bend os struck n liloiv at n.r which how i ever did not reach me this wus the signal li.r to nittli i wt.s wised by the trustees whose n-f end gray hairs protected them from a'blow ; and notwithstanding the assistance of my friend gene ral w ho \\ illiumson participated in my feelings and manfully sustained ,,â€žâ– through ihe whole ahuir wis were l>..tlt precipitated over benches and chairs with much viulence and soon bund ourselves at ilm bottom of ibe stairs one of the trustees whose head was bald from a and who had i most prominent in the melee followed us t the street and called ihe watch whom he required to lake us into custody the watch after hearing his statement refused we then requested as ,, favor to is 1 taken uli ire tl.e civ authorities Â« inch he as sented to on our arrival at the police office the trustee preferred his complaint against us and in sist.,,i ou our detention 1 gave a simple statement ol facts which was corroborated bv the volunteer testimony nf many gentlemen who had follow i us from the hull n ml whose honest indignation which lhe presence of tho presiding alderman could scarce ly restrain furnish the beat commentary i the whole proceeding the complainant was promptly dismissed hy the presiding judge and wo were po litely informed that we were ut liberty to depart tn the gentlemen before whom wo were so nex peotedly arraigned i tender the thanks of qoneral williamson and myself for the politeness we expe rienced and ihe civilities which thev extended to us after remaining nt the office until the crowd had dispersed we returned to the city hotel an.l i pursuance ofour previous engagem t left your ctiy ai 111 a vi iii the steamboat li.r baltimore tins is a plan relation of facts do thev not furnish subjeel li.r most grave and serious reflection ' l>o ihey not with starling voice np|s'al to you ill ull the various rotations of life i as the corporate au thorities of llie city of new york you are the con si ilulei i guardians of he people's in nils â€” the watch men over their civil an.l m,liticnl liberties will you tolerate in your enlightened community the promulgation of doctrines destructive of both if any man w s to preach in your streets the doctrine of irresponsibility to your civil institutions he would l.e denounced for treason un.l the strong arm ofthe law would he extended to him will you permit a higher treason which pre dies man's irresponsi bility to his god t if anv one wits publicly to pro claim that female chastity wus a folly ami vir tue hut ai i ll .. a e would not pul li indignation brand him as u wretch nn.l the civil authority con sign i tin to the penitentiary â– - ami will you suili-r lhe open uud public avowal with a view to make proselytes of doctrines which by breaking dovyn all oral barriers would make prostitutes of your wives ami daughters an.l felons i your sous ' as purents you ure deeply interested for ho who le ties all responsibility to his i,â€žl or to his country will hardly recognise the responsibility of a child to his parent anil who are these ineii ? they call themselves " moral philanthropists is il iu the losecrat ion of overy thing which the united uml matured wis dom of all who huve precede i us have light us lo ik holy ! is it in attempting lo subvert r free institutions â€” to break usuiiileiev.ry moral tie which himls us together ami to reduce us to primitive na il.re >. ami what do they oiler you in exchange ' for immortality they proffer to you annihilation for tl.e meek i lowly redeemer thev would substitute the goddess of reason who iu tbo sanguinary and lioastly orgies of ll ihspiorre mu rat i their sans culotte compatriots was appro priately personated l.y a naked prostitute citizens of new vork descendants of the knickerbockers the virtuous old dutchmen of your slate ! are you willing lo make the exchange ? will il.e old men on tin verge ofthe grave sur render lln l.o|m nf immortality which has solaced ihein through iiii ami now cheer tho.n on thoir passage to eternity ? will the youth of your city abandon the religion nf iheir forefathers i repudiate a belief which restrains then from vice uud stimulates them to virtue i â€¢â€¢ ml 0 vbt ltllv vi ss i ss no the dream op life i'h ts but n bubbli â€” yol twas bright and guily da i along the stream of life's wild torrent in the light of mnbeama sparkling like a dream of heaven's own hh li.r loveliness â€” i'or tloetuc-s like u passing fh.ni -..- and ever nf such hopes is these i'he tissue oi'inv iiii i wrought : por i have dr'emiiieil i pleasures which i'he sun of young existence smiled upon my way waul path and linn ller promised pweota mv heart beguiled lint when 1 en those sweets to sip they turned to gall upon my lip and i have dreamed of friendship too for friendship i had thought was in idu to he nun bolace 11 the shade and glad bun in the light nnd so 1 i 1 ilv thought to find 1 fi'ieii i whose soul with ui in would sweet blend an i as iwo placid streams unite and toll their vv iter iu one bright and tranquil current to the -.-;,, so might our happy spirits be borne onwurd to eternity â€” b it he betrayed uie and with pain 1 woke to sl.-'p and dreiiii again all i then 1 dreamed of love and nil i'h clustered visum ofthe past s ed uuy ne 1 nga to that last bright dream ll threw a magical e tnhantmoiit on existence â€” east a glory it my path ao bright i seemed l breath and feel its light . bul now that blissful dream i o'er and i have waked to dream no more beyond ench distant glimmering star that twinkles in lhe arch above there is 1 world nf truth and love which earth's vile passions never mar du could i snatch the eagle's phi lies an soar to hat l.rtirlit world away which god's own holy light illumes with glori ia of eternal day how gl idly every lingering tie that binds uie down to earth i'd sever and leave for thai blest hone on high tin hn mow hearte ! world forever tr a hoiilil he tol rated in any community i looked round at the audience the old men nodded assent even to the tno.-t nil ra of his 1 times ; the females whose sensitive feelings and lively iraaginationa too often iniike them the vtcl 1 1 lis of designing men lis le i with avidity aud some of them even respond ed with a laugh to lus grossest ribaldry ; a youth of not mora than h next to whom i sat in response to some of tin docilities exclaimed that is true and the beautiful i.iiit.i boy in lhe arms of h.s falher near the front of the pulpit whose ductile mind and warm infantile feelings were prepared to receive any impression â€” for good or for bad with opened mouth ami eyes beaming with interest i intelligence trunk in the polluted stream from that old mans lips 1 am uo fanatic â€” 1 am no bigot â€” i nn not what is called a i'uot h-.ssok of religion though at tuched as a member to the church of my forefa thers i am nol as yet a communicant though i trust the lime is not fur distant when i shall he able to realize the pleasure and assume the responsibilities f one the leading principles of christianity how ever were instilled into nie from mv eu.liest youth kelts t and reflection have confirmed their truth the whole universe â€” the stars nnd the firmament â€” the mountains uml the valleys â€” the land and the ocean with their countless inhabitants â€” all nature animate und inanimate â€” proclaim with one voice the existence of ii supreme being the idea is implanted in our very nature ii is incorporated with all our institutions whether religious political or social ii is the substratum upon which the consti tution of our frcf gover intent rests the respon sibilities which it imposes and the duties it incul cates in all the relations of life nre tho grand ce ment which keeps society together entertaining these opinions mv feelings revolted nt the doctrines which i heard so shamelessly pro claimed as n citizen of a free country whose lsist institutions would wither under tbe poisoning influ ence of the upas tree of infidelity ; as a member of u social community nil or whose connecting nnd controlling hoods would lie broke through were they not sustained by the obligations which are in culcated by tl bible us a philanthropist w could not see youth and old uge trembling on the verge ol u precipice without raising a warning crv und extending forth u helping hand to save them from perdition i determined to enter tr.y protest against the doctrines i had heard i w.js a father i'l age â€” the beauty â€” the intelligent look of that little buy spoke to nv heart ill a language it well understood ii reminded me of my little hoy â€” my only ton â€” ofthe same uge â€” ilu same beaut v â€” the , ill 1 1 ihei.i'ouiiiloi.lioiiof then strabo the traveller and geographer was ex ceeili'igly fastidious in his dress and manners and for this reason wns denominated in bis travels as a stray beau misanthropns pure english mice nnd throw puss the individual thus designate i was a splene tic churl wl having quarrelled with till his neigh bours till be could gel no one to quarrol with him even resorted lo tl.e follow it tpedinnt to gratily his malicious inclination to had an empty attic iu his house into which by dint of cheese and other mouse-like temptations he succeeded in congrega ting everv week a great number of mice lie would then bring up his cat and suddenly opening the door throw it in among ihem his neighbors hearing of this bestowed on him the appellation of mice and ibrwc puss which oilier pretended scho lars would pretend to be derived from tnisositittliro pn i conclude with one ore instance winch the dean gives : are/ninnies hurk'oe-niaids every one knows that this great philosopher was exceedingly abstrac ted when at his studies and every one knows equal ly well that house servants have but little conside ra.ion t'.r quiel philosophers such was the case with the great mathematician every five minutes he had to leave his interrupted studies and call oul to the vociferous population fins kit hen hark ini-ls !" and in revenge they called hi ar cltnllietlcs i will in conclusion repeal lhal i intend no dis respecl to those who admire ih diversion of i'ur icy in thus narrating the etymological diver sion ofthe dean i'or st patrick -**â€¢â€¢â€¢*â€” commodore porter in his letters coin constanti nople savs that th turkish women tire even loud er ol a i'l more addicted to shopping than those ol america we copy from the work the following descrip tion of lhe sultan's great ship miiliiu i i visited very part of the ship she is larger than our pennsylvania the carpenter's work and the materials of which she is composed are nut equal to those ofour ships but when i say we have not a ship in our service whoae ornamental parts equipments and outfit are at all to lie compared ti th i the mahuioud as regards richness elo g,i â€¢, utility and expense i say no more than the truth her batteries will consist of one hundred and forty guns of calibres from five hundred pounds downward u her main deck she is in carry lour of this description the rest are lo be forty-two pounders every gun on board is as bright i.s bur nished gold ; her gun carnages are absolutely ca binet work ull the iron work about ihem is like polished steel ami the brass work of which there is much corresponding therewith the beautiful polish of lhe rich and costly womls of which lhe ceiling sides and bulkheads of iter cabin an nun pooed slrikes tl.e eye with a dazzling magtuli ce the boon an covered with the same wood la ml a kind of mosaic all the rest of her equipments winch are in a high slate of forwardness iu lhe lore bouses are in tl.e same keeping and when all are put together and tl.e mahumud is coin plot ihe turks will have it in their power lo boast of llie largest and most splendid ship in th world â€” hm description of a wife â€” now there's mia polly johnson though i love ber i wouldn't gin her stor sal for a bushel on iter and i'll tell you why i â€” sal understands helpalogy thai is to gil up ut daylight milk cows bake bread churn but ler cook victuals hoe corn make i â€ž i-h save inn waste nothing knit stockings doctor folks talk plain engluh keep h"r temper and read tl.e bi i.le good select miscellany female beauty and ornament bv d'isbaeu the ladies of japan gild their teeth an i those of the indies paint them red the pearl teeth must he died black to bo beautiful in giuturat in qrennland women color their faces with blue and yellow however frosh the complexion of a mus covite may be she would thi ik herself very u<_jly if sho was not plastered over with punt the chi nese must have their feel as diminutive is those ... tl â– she goat and to ret i'r them thus their youth is p st in the tortures lu a icieut persia an aqui line nose was often though worthy of the crow .,;>:! if thare was any competition between two prin ces the people went generally by this criterion of majesty in some countries the mothers break the n se of their chil iron an i iti others press the head between two hoards that it may become square the modern persians have a strong aver sion to red hair the turks on the contrary are warn admirers of it the female hottentot re c o',ves from the hand of liar lover nol silks nor wreathes of bowers li.it warm guts and reeking trip to dress herself with enviable ornament in china small round eyes an liked and the girls are continually pluckiu th tir eyebrow thai they m.v be thin and long the turkish women dtp a gold brush into the tinctui f a lila.-k drug which they pass over their eyebrows li is too visible by liv but looks shining by night they tinge iheir nails with a rose col r an african beauty mist have small eves thick lin a large hat nose aud skin beautifully black the erape mr of mnnimot pa would â€žâ€¢>! change his amiable negroes for tbe most bnl'.i inl eur ipoon beauty an ornament ofthe uos appears lo us perfectly unnecessary the peruvians however think other wise and they hang on it a weighty ring the thick ness of which i proportioned by the rank of then husbands the custom of boring it us our ladiei do their ear is verv cm ,â€ž>., in several nations through the perforation are hung various mat a a'.s such as green crystal gold stones a singlo anl sometimes a great nu nberofgold rings tliis is rather troublesome tn ihem in blowing their nos es and the feci is some have inform id us thai th indian indies never perform this very useful opera tion ... the female headdress is carried ... some coun dies ... a singular extent the chinese feir car ries on her head the figure of a certain bird this bird is composed of c pper or gold according to the quality of the person th â€¢ wings spread out fell over the front of the head-dress and cue ill lb temples the tail long and op forms ;, beau tiful tuft ol feathers the beak covers the top ol tiie nose the neck is fastened to il.e body of lhe artificial nuimiil by a spring that it may the more freely play ami tremble at the slightest notion tiie extravagance of tho myanlscs is lar ore ridiculous than the above thoy carry 00 their head a slight board rather longer than a foot and about six inches broiul with tins ihey coyer th hair and seal it will wax they cannot lie no a without keeping the nock straight and the country being very woody it ts not uncommon lo find llie i will their heal dross entangled in the t r cs whenever thev comb iheir hair they pas rt hour bv the fire ui melting lh w ut tins romhing in only performed on r twice a year the inhabitant of the island of natal wear caps or b.nnets fr s,v ... t i inch high oo npoeed of ihe fat of oxen t'l'v then gradually anoint the head with pure grease which mixing with the b.ur doctrines of â– to the corporate authorities and same intelligence â€” whom that divine doing whose existence those men denied i bought proper in his providence to take to himself thank godl ms w liieli took p!.;o luting my late i-it to your city of cities requires some public noitee on the evening of sunday last whilst walking broadway in company wilh my friend uen george w v illiamaon ol this city i expres sed ,, curiosity to see tammany ii ii which i had heard sp kx i of as your gnat acuta i'..r public discussion w e accordingly pr ceded thither ; an.l .... entering tho hall discovered to our sur prise ii li.rge au hence assembled listening appar ently with wrapt attention 1 a speaker who was addressing then fro a pulpit at one oxtremity ol the ll ii i'he door keeper required f us tiscpence each as the price of admission which ive paid i and took our seals on one f the back benches â€” j ou looking round i discovered thii of the audi 1 e which nearly filled the large mall about one half consisted of respectably dressed females of all ages from the young girl just bl.iuraing inlo wo manhood to the age.l matron immediately ou the left ofthe pulpit on froill bet i Â«",',â€¢ seated a number of venerable lÂ»l men some li.ld trom age and others with scanty locks winch had been whi tened bv ihe rust of many sere of wu tiers in ih rear f ihem were a uumber f persons with musical instruments in their hi ml ami nearly fr i.ng the pulpit Â«:.** a gentleman u appearance with a beautiful and mosl interesting boy appa rently aboul jin years ol age i his arras whose youthful glance appeared to lie directed with fa scinating influence to ihe speaki r in ihe pulpit â€” tl rest ofthe audience were well dressed persons â€” any f ihem youths fro sixteen to eighteen years of age after .. taking ilus rapid survey and directing our attention to the speaker our pre possessions were at .....'.â– aseited in his favor he was apparently about 3fi or tu years i age t i an i una person i appearance wanning address musical vole and exhibiting great powers f elo cution ii was passing n review the different systems of theology of tt various sects and na tions of the world shewing much historical re search an.l evincing uch talent we were 1 lighted and congratulated each other .... having gone to u.e hall a revulsion of feelings howev er soon took pli.ee wl ou ins making a practi cal application of what he inui been reviewing ihe result f all lus fails and reasoning was infide lity iii its mosl undisguised naked and disgust ing form when he i'm sli 1 his address which was evidently a prepared one he resigned l.is place in il.e pulpit to i.i elderly inun of rude manners and most unprepossessing exterior who read fro the citizens op new-vork infant mind was ever polluted by the name of iw rii.iii.l'vv ; and the best consolation which i have for h loss is in the certain hope that lie is enjoy ing tl.iit immortality of happiness in another world which these miscalled philanthropists would de prive us of as soon us tl.o last sjieukcr closed his address i advanced lo tl.e pulpit and ... the mildest uml most courteous manlier requested of the two speakers permission to address a lew words to tl.e audience il reply to ihem i was refused i observed to then that it wi.s 1 public meeting ibr admission in to which we had paid at the door that they had slated hat the only true guide was rlasolf nn.l hod in boil their addresses challenged investiga tion inlo the correctness of their doctrines that their doctrines were to my mind su blasphemous aud so subversive f the principles of our govern ment thi i i wi.s anxious i'or in opportunity to re fute them that if their loenines could bear the test i reason ihey ought not to refuse investigation the younger of the speakers then said appoint any day this week ami we will hear you i repli ed that i w.is a stranger and lh.it my engagements required me lo leave the city .... my return to ll.il liuiure the next morning that their speeches had been prepared with care and that mv reply would be extemporaneous j unit i wished whilst the minds will ihe matrons of your city become proaelytes to doctrines which will teach them whilst straining their infants to their bosoms that the objects of their maternal care around whom all woman's fond est affections and devotions concentrate uio mere clods ofthe valley which like lhe brute boast will return lo their original nothingness and is lost iu the darkness l annihilation ! â€” ask these questions of yourselves when you retire to your chamber â€” in the silence of night â€” and wnh the world shut out ; and lol your hearts uud your conscience an swer them of the audi lice were warm from the glowing i press of iheir addresses la erase the impression before it bad become indurated l.y time i was again refused i appealed then to the old gentle men ou the front bench on lh i it of the pulpit who stilled thai they were trustees of the society they also refused ..,.* with much vehemence of man ner i then turned round uml appealed to the au dience i said to ihem ihi i i was a sl auger in their oily and had been attracted by curiosity to see tammany hall name associated wnh deino-l era v and with ills and freedom of speech lhal i was from the south hose citizens from misap prehension of lhe r ch ter in many in the bast were supposed lobe sod lhal lai ilu dinar ill in their religious opinions | hut bat the doctrines which i had heard that nighl â€¢ m so blasphemous in the character and so 1 ilixiog in their tendency â€” so subversive of tin .. .-.,,,,, ,..,â– > under which it will perhaps is sail that ih doctrine of these men are so revolting and ih.-ir numbers so low that inn lunger is to be apprehended nml that contemp i tonus silence is the li i answer delude not your i selves with the fallacy lay nol this flattering un tion to your ul their poison is an insidi ous one which while you slumber in fancied secu rity will penetrate lo the head's blis of all your institution and till the balm of li lead will i una ble lo effect a cure arouse lest you 11.11 into that oral s|.s thai knows no waking let public opinio awaken in all its energy i loll these mo ral incendiaries il.ai they shall m.t be permitted to throw iheir firebrand into your community and reduce to oue moral ruin your altars your temples and your domestic hearths infidelity is u weed which is nol congenial to nur soil it is nu exotic do not triiu splat i it inlo your oral garden ; it will extirpate every wholesome and beauteous plant ui iiil il tow into a ire wl.icl overshadowing vour noble city will wither aud destroy every thing within its influence establuha moral quarantine around your city illimitable in point of time and iw in.'l no ing unity can evade do this and you bwdl daeerve the ihank of your fellow citizens a i i uie the honor to is vour fellow citizen m e l fin ley 27th mav i's^'i m^m â– **Â»â– â– â– - we lived â€” so un local , ial order ami so utterly ut variance with all mv wonceived opinioos of religious obligations and aoral duty that i was cousin to enter my pro est iÂ»gia.i**t il.e ; that i had appealed to tl.e speakers and lo lhe trustees for permission which they bad refused i that i now appealed to ihem and asked will >/Â«Â» hi ar tne '"' the appeal w'as responded to fro the au di nice l.y il.e often repeated crv of â€¢' hear him before i could av i myself of lhis permission i was surrounded by ibe trustees who acoueed ...*' of l.s turbing iheir meeting and suid i should ol speak up i this time no i ic had baan offered ; â€” but wh.lsi madly remonstrating w.ih the speakers and trustee about llunr refus.il locouiplv w.ll th wish es of ihe audience a ,. u.l.tm un one of tl.o plooluw who was safely oi trenched behind iwu a hook seven i ver which were sung by most of t the audience principally by the females-accompani ___",| bv the inii-ic 1 iii-lrui.io'.ls the sun person then commenced and delivered an address wl.ielt nocupied about thirty minutes and which for gross rilmldry in pietv.a id tin most revolting profanity was never exceeded firing the wildest excesses of the french revolution i will not enter inlo the disgusting detail < ,' ll he said iÂ»n merely stat ii few of lus doctrine he boldly ridiculed i and denied ibe existence of a god ; declared with povrtv is not a shape but being ashamed of it i

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tiie western carolinian published every saturday mokmnc asjjjjj^iji sidwji ai!j it*us)^j*li wo jlÂ±mj?'jdll editors and proprietors y*uinbi r 7 of volume 16 salisbury north carolina july ih 1835 numwv i'vinm w'puumg 78v from the national intelligencer a nni i.s i emphasis that the holy bible mis a humbug . und lluit all professors of religion were inly hy pocrites whose sule object vva io nil their bellies will beef and pudding i listened with horror and astonishment â€” horror lhal any civilized or human being should openly profess a belief ... such doc the english the primitive language op the world such is the title of a in morons chapter in the miscellanies of lhat strange creature dean swift ll i above eighteen yeur ago since i road it and it was only recalled to my mind lhe other day by reading soineof the articles of your grammatical correspondents i am not one of those who aflecl to despise the learned labors of etymologists ; who not satisfied with drinking of ihe stream must trnee it to its source it is a lauduhlo curiosity i l there nre more unprofitable " hunting excur sions " than his " who starts a word and hunts it in the dark through groeco mnl rome innl into noah's ark bit lhe dean of sl patrick bel down every tiling as i'.ur game and showed as little mercy lo etymologists us he did lo any other class of wor thies he commences bis chapter i remember by stuting as u provable fact thut the hebrew nor il welch wa tin primitive language of our race but the english and he then proceeded to adduce in proofs some of ihem sufficiently droll li may nol be unamusing to vour readers to give ihem from in mi rv , a specimen of these proofs motei mow-seas lie cut out the red sea into iwo purls isaac eyes ache having been trouble i with much pam in rise es previous to his tolal blindness a ruin in the creek : androttuiche andrew mackie was called af ter her pan ml a scotchman alexander the great all eggs under lie urate tin emperor wns very fond of poached eggs ami when the searvnnts of the kitchen â€” thokitchen ca binet of oilier days â€” saw bim approaching they were wont to exclaim " all e^os un lor the grate ! " bucephalus busy fellows alexander's steed was alien led by a vast number of groom who were always busy aboul him and hence tlie term which described the holders came to he applied to the horse itself â€” liiisy-fclltncs peloponnesus 1'a.l up nuclease us the inha bitants had to letch their waler in pails front a con siderable dtsliu.ee without the city whenever thoy in t wilh a stranger they put down iheir pails and addressed him in this phrase pail up and ease us hence the place was so culled by fo reigners spol t n hy mis chapman at the benefit 1411111 in j sheridan knowles at the wa theatre \ york t>,i tin th nf jntl l^;i.v â€” writifii l.v uborqb i moa&ia editor nl tliu new vork mirror nay t mr simson â€” ' l*is not km 1 â€” polite â€” tu shut tut out ir â€” i'm 111 bucll a fright ! â€” i cannol speak the tines i'm mire oh vol to say i must â€” bm it i must â€” i'll iry i prom linn i turn to uiese more gunerous souls tho drama's patrons and uie vienna of know lea why what a brilliant galaxy is bore what stars adorn this mimic k hemisphere ! names thut shino brightest on our country's page ! the props of science â€” literature â€” iim stage : above â€” hi low â€” an mini nk â€” woman smiles the fairest flowerul of these western wilds â€” all come to pay the tribute of their praise to tin aral dramatist of modern days and welcome tu uie green homo al hie iroej u ith heart and hand the bard of liberty ! his is a wizard wand ii potent spell broke tin deep slumber ol the patriot ivi1 1 ami placed inui mi his native hills again the pride and glory of his fellow men the poet speaks â€” tin rome virginia bleeds i > i ( niiih gracchus in tin brum pleads ! alfred the great because the good ami wise bids prostrate england bursl her bowls and rise ! sweet bess the beggar's daughter beauty's queen walks forth the joy and woder of tteacenco the hunchback enters â€” kindly â€” and â€” severe and last behold the glorious wife appear these are the blight creations of a mind glowing with genius chastened and refined in all he's written bu this praise his lot not one word dying would he wish to blotl i jnÂ»n mv life tis no such easy thing to land the bard unless an eagle's wing my music would take and li xing on the sun i ler burning eye soar as ins own has donu ! did you speak sir '. â€” whut madam did he say i wrangling for shame ! â€” before your wedding uuy nay gentle lady by thine ryes of blue awl vermeil blushes i did not mean you bless me what friends at every glance 1 see artists and authors â€” men of high degree grave politicians who have weighed uach chance â€” the nexl election und the war with france doctors just come from curing halt a score and belles from killing twice as many more judges recorders aldermen and mnyors heated like true republicans down stairs all wear a glow ofsunsbine in their to a might well become apollo and tlie graces except one yonder with a look infernal like a blurr d page from fanny komblu's journal ! hiit to my task the muse when 1 began spoke of the wnier â€” welcome ye the man genius at best sets bul an humble part unless obedient to an honest heart and such 11 one is ins for whom tonight these walls are crowded Â« ith tins c.h ering sijrlit ve love the poet â€” nil have oonn'd h.m o'er â€” knew ye tlm man yo'd lovs hun ten times more ve critics spare hun trom your tongue and tjiiill ve gods applaud him and ye lops be still 1 ...Â»-. of bend os struck n liloiv at n.r which how i ever did not reach me this wus the signal li.r to nittli i wt.s wised by the trustees whose n-f end gray hairs protected them from a'blow ; and notwithstanding the assistance of my friend gene ral w ho \\ illiumson participated in my feelings and manfully sustained ,,â€žâ– through ihe whole ahuir wis were l>..tlt precipitated over benches and chairs with much viulence and soon bund ourselves at ilm bottom of ibe stairs one of the trustees whose head was bald from a and who had i most prominent in the melee followed us t the street and called ihe watch whom he required to lake us into custody the watch after hearing his statement refused we then requested as ,, favor to is 1 taken uli ire tl.e civ authorities Â« inch he as sented to on our arrival at the police office the trustee preferred his complaint against us and in sist.,,i ou our detention 1 gave a simple statement ol facts which was corroborated bv the volunteer testimony nf many gentlemen who had follow i us from the hull n ml whose honest indignation which lhe presence of tho presiding alderman could scarce ly restrain furnish the beat commentary i the whole proceeding the complainant was promptly dismissed hy the presiding judge and wo were po litely informed that we were ut liberty to depart tn the gentlemen before whom wo were so nex peotedly arraigned i tender the thanks of qoneral williamson and myself for the politeness we expe rienced and ihe civilities which thev extended to us after remaining nt the office until the crowd had dispersed we returned to the city hotel an.l i pursuance ofour previous engagem t left your ctiy ai 111 a vi iii the steamboat li.r baltimore tins is a plan relation of facts do thev not furnish subjeel li.r most grave and serious reflection ' l>o ihey not with starling voice np|s'al to you ill ull the various rotations of life i as the corporate au thorities of llie city of new york you are the con si ilulei i guardians of he people's in nils â€” the watch men over their civil an.l m,liticnl liberties will you tolerate in your enlightened community the promulgation of doctrines destructive of both if any man w s to preach in your streets the doctrine of irresponsibility to your civil institutions he would l.e denounced for treason un.l the strong arm ofthe law would he extended to him will you permit a higher treason which pre dies man's irresponsi bility to his god t if anv one wits publicly to pro claim that female chastity wus a folly ami vir tue hut ai i ll .. a e would not pul li indignation brand him as u wretch nn.l the civil authority con sign i tin to the penitentiary â– - ami will you suili-r lhe open uud public avowal with a view to make proselytes of doctrines which by breaking dovyn all oral barriers would make prostitutes of your wives ami daughters an.l felons i your sous ' as purents you ure deeply interested for ho who le ties all responsibility to his i,â€žl or to his country will hardly recognise the responsibility of a child to his parent anil who are these ineii ? they call themselves " moral philanthropists is il iu the losecrat ion of overy thing which the united uml matured wis dom of all who huve precede i us have light us lo ik holy ! is it in attempting lo subvert r free institutions â€” to break usuiiileiev.ry moral tie which himls us together ami to reduce us to primitive na il.re >. ami what do they oiler you in exchange ' for immortality they proffer to you annihilation for tl.e meek i lowly redeemer thev would substitute the goddess of reason who iu tbo sanguinary and lioastly orgies of ll ihspiorre mu rat i their sans culotte compatriots was appro priately personated l.y a naked prostitute citizens of new vork descendants of the knickerbockers the virtuous old dutchmen of your slate ! are you willing lo make the exchange ? will il.e old men on tin verge ofthe grave sur render lln l.o|m nf immortality which has solaced ihein through iiii ami now cheer tho.n on thoir passage to eternity ? will the youth of your city abandon the religion nf iheir forefathers i repudiate a belief which restrains then from vice uud stimulates them to virtue i â€¢â€¢ ml 0 vbt ltllv vi ss i ss no the dream op life i'h ts but n bubbli â€” yol twas bright and guily da i along the stream of life's wild torrent in the light of mnbeama sparkling like a dream of heaven's own hh li.r loveliness â€” i'or tloetuc-s like u passing fh.ni -..- and ever nf such hopes is these i'he tissue oi'inv iiii i wrought : por i have dr'emiiieil i pleasures which i'he sun of young existence smiled upon my way waul path and linn ller promised pweota mv heart beguiled lint when 1 en those sweets to sip they turned to gall upon my lip and i have dreamed of friendship too for friendship i had thought was in idu to he nun bolace 11 the shade and glad bun in the light nnd so 1 i 1 ilv thought to find 1 fi'ieii i whose soul with ui in would sweet blend an i as iwo placid streams unite and toll their vv iter iu one bright and tranquil current to the -.-;,, so might our happy spirits be borne onwurd to eternity â€” b it he betrayed uie and with pain 1 woke to sl.-'p and dreiiii again all i then 1 dreamed of love and nil i'h clustered visum ofthe past s ed uuy ne 1 nga to that last bright dream ll threw a magical e tnhantmoiit on existence â€” east a glory it my path ao bright i seemed l breath and feel its light . bul now that blissful dream i o'er and i have waked to dream no more beyond ench distant glimmering star that twinkles in lhe arch above there is 1 world nf truth and love which earth's vile passions never mar du could i snatch the eagle's phi lies an soar to hat l.rtirlit world away which god's own holy light illumes with glori ia of eternal day how gl idly every lingering tie that binds uie down to earth i'd sever and leave for thai blest hone on high tin hn mow hearte ! world forever tr a hoiilil he tol rated in any community i looked round at the audience the old men nodded assent even to the tno.-t nil ra of his 1 times ; the females whose sensitive feelings and lively iraaginationa too often iniike them the vtcl 1 1 lis of designing men lis le i with avidity aud some of them even respond ed with a laugh to lus grossest ribaldry ; a youth of not mora than h next to whom i sat in response to some of tin docilities exclaimed that is true and the beautiful i.iiit.i boy in lhe arms of h.s falher near the front of the pulpit whose ductile mind and warm infantile feelings were prepared to receive any impression â€” for good or for bad with opened mouth ami eyes beaming with interest i intelligence trunk in the polluted stream from that old mans lips 1 am uo fanatic â€” 1 am no bigot â€” i nn not what is called a i'uot h-.ssok of religion though at tuched as a member to the church of my forefa thers i am nol as yet a communicant though i trust the lime is not fur distant when i shall he able to realize the pleasure and assume the responsibilities f one the leading principles of christianity how ever were instilled into nie from mv eu.liest youth kelts t and reflection have confirmed their truth the whole universe â€” the stars nnd the firmament â€” the mountains uml the valleys â€” the land and the ocean with their countless inhabitants â€” all nature animate und inanimate â€” proclaim with one voice the existence of ii supreme being the idea is implanted in our very nature ii is incorporated with all our institutions whether religious political or social ii is the substratum upon which the consti tution of our frcf gover intent rests the respon sibilities which it imposes and the duties it incul cates in all the relations of life nre tho grand ce ment which keeps society together entertaining these opinions mv feelings revolted nt the doctrines which i heard so shamelessly pro claimed as n citizen of a free country whose lsist institutions would wither under tbe poisoning influ ence of the upas tree of infidelity ; as a member of u social community nil or whose connecting nnd controlling hoods would lie broke through were they not sustained by the obligations which are in culcated by tl bible us a philanthropist w could not see youth and old uge trembling on the verge ol u precipice without raising a warning crv und extending forth u helping hand to save them from perdition i determined to enter tr.y protest against the doctrines i had heard i w.js a father i'l age â€” the beauty â€” the intelligent look of that little buy spoke to nv heart ill a language it well understood ii reminded me of my little hoy â€” my only ton â€” ofthe same uge â€” ilu same beaut v â€” the , ill 1 1 ihei.i'ouiiiloi.lioiiof then strabo the traveller and geographer was ex ceeili'igly fastidious in his dress and manners and for this reason wns denominated in bis travels as a stray beau misanthropns pure english mice nnd throw puss the individual thus designate i was a splene tic churl wl having quarrelled with till his neigh bours till be could gel no one to quarrol with him even resorted lo tl.e follow it tpedinnt to gratily his malicious inclination to had an empty attic iu his house into which by dint of cheese and other mouse-like temptations he succeeded in congrega ting everv week a great number of mice lie would then bring up his cat and suddenly opening the door throw it in among ihem his neighbors hearing of this bestowed on him the appellation of mice and ibrwc puss which oilier pretended scho lars would pretend to be derived from tnisositittliro pn i conclude with one ore instance winch the dean gives : are/ninnies hurk'oe-niaids every one knows that this great philosopher was exceedingly abstrac ted when at his studies and every one knows equal ly well that house servants have but little conside ra.ion t'.r quiel philosophers such was the case with the great mathematician every five minutes he had to leave his interrupted studies and call oul to the vociferous population fins kit hen hark ini-ls !" and in revenge they called hi ar cltnllietlcs i will in conclusion repeal lhal i intend no dis respecl to those who admire ih diversion of i'ur icy in thus narrating the etymological diver sion ofthe dean i'or st patrick -**â€¢â€¢â€¢*â€” commodore porter in his letters coin constanti nople savs that th turkish women tire even loud er ol a i'l more addicted to shopping than those ol america we copy from the work the following descrip tion of lhe sultan's great ship miiliiu i i visited very part of the ship she is larger than our pennsylvania the carpenter's work and the materials of which she is composed are nut equal to those ofour ships but when i say we have not a ship in our service whoae ornamental parts equipments and outfit are at all to lie compared ti th i the mahuioud as regards richness elo g,i â€¢, utility and expense i say no more than the truth her batteries will consist of one hundred and forty guns of calibres from five hundred pounds downward u her main deck she is in carry lour of this description the rest are lo be forty-two pounders every gun on board is as bright i.s bur nished gold ; her gun carnages are absolutely ca binet work ull the iron work about ihem is like polished steel ami the brass work of which there is much corresponding therewith the beautiful polish of lhe rich and costly womls of which lhe ceiling sides and bulkheads of iter cabin an nun pooed slrikes tl.e eye with a dazzling magtuli ce the boon an covered with the same wood la ml a kind of mosaic all the rest of her equipments winch are in a high slate of forwardness iu lhe lore bouses are in tl.e same keeping and when all are put together and tl.e mahumud is coin plot ihe turks will have it in their power lo boast of llie largest and most splendid ship in th world â€” hm description of a wife â€” now there's mia polly johnson though i love ber i wouldn't gin her stor sal for a bushel on iter and i'll tell you why i â€” sal understands helpalogy thai is to gil up ut daylight milk cows bake bread churn but ler cook victuals hoe corn make i â€ž i-h save inn waste nothing knit stockings doctor folks talk plain engluh keep h"r temper and read tl.e bi i.le good select miscellany female beauty and ornament bv d'isbaeu the ladies of japan gild their teeth an i those of the indies paint them red the pearl teeth must he died black to bo beautiful in giuturat in qrennland women color their faces with blue and yellow however frosh the complexion of a mus covite may be she would thi ik herself very u:! if thare was any competition between two prin ces the people went generally by this criterion of majesty in some countries the mothers break the n se of their chil iron an i iti others press the head between two hoards that it may become square the modern persians have a strong aver sion to red hair the turks on the contrary are warn admirers of it the female hottentot re c o',ves from the hand of liar lover nol silks nor wreathes of bowers li.it warm guts and reeking trip to dress herself with enviable ornament in china small round eyes an liked and the girls are continually pluckiu th tir eyebrow thai they m.v be thin and long the turkish women dtp a gold brush into the tinctui f a lila.-k drug which they pass over their eyebrows li is too visible by liv but looks shining by night they tinge iheir nails with a rose col r an african beauty mist have small eves thick lin a large hat nose aud skin beautifully black the erape mr of mnnimot pa would â€žâ€¢>! change his amiable negroes for tbe most bnl'.i inl eur ipoon beauty an ornament ofthe uos appears lo us perfectly unnecessary the peruvians however think other wise and they hang on it a weighty ring the thick ness of which i proportioned by the rank of then husbands the custom of boring it us our ladiei do their ear is verv cm ,â€ž>., in several nations through the perforation are hung various mat a a'.s such as green crystal gold stones a singlo anl sometimes a great nu nberofgold rings tliis is rather troublesome tn ihem in blowing their nos es and the feci is some have inform id us thai th indian indies never perform this very useful opera tion ... the female headdress is carried ... some coun dies ... a singular extent the chinese feir car ries on her head the figure of a certain bird this bird is composed of c pper or gold according to the quality of the person th â€¢ wings spread out fell over the front of the head-dress and cue ill lb temples the tail long and op forms ;, beau tiful tuft ol feathers the beak covers the top ol tiie nose the neck is fastened to il.e body of lhe artificial nuimiil by a spring that it may the more freely play ami tremble at the slightest notion tiie extravagance of tho myanlscs is lar ore ridiculous than the above thoy carry 00 their head a slight board rather longer than a foot and about six inches broiul with tins ihey coyer th hair and seal it will wax they cannot lie no a without keeping the nock straight and the country being very woody it ts not uncommon lo find llie i will their heal dross entangled in the t r cs whenever thev comb iheir hair they pas rt hour bv the fire ui melting lh w ut tins romhing in only performed on r twice a year the inhabitant of the island of natal wear caps or b.nnets fr s,v ... t i inch high oo npoeed of ihe fat of oxen t'l'v then gradually anoint the head with pure grease which mixing with the b.ur doctrines of â– to the corporate authorities and same intelligence â€” whom that divine doing whose existence those men denied i bought proper in his providence to take to himself thank godl ms w liieli took p!.;o luting my late i-it to your city of cities requires some public noitee on the evening of sunday last whilst walking broadway in company wilh my friend uen george w v illiamaon ol this city i expres sed ,, curiosity to see tammany ii ii which i had heard sp kx i of as your gnat acuta i'..r public discussion w e accordingly pr ceded thither ; an.l .... entering tho hall discovered to our sur prise ii li.rge au hence assembled listening appar ently with wrapt attention 1 a speaker who was addressing then fro a pulpit at one oxtremity ol the ll ii i'he door keeper required f us tiscpence each as the price of admission which ive paid i and took our seals on one f the back benches â€” j ou looking round i discovered thii of the audi 1 e which nearly filled the large mall about one half consisted of respectably dressed females of all ages from the young girl just bl.iuraing inlo wo manhood to the age.l matron immediately ou the left ofthe pulpit on froill bet i Â«",',â€¢ seated a number of venerable lÂ»l men some li.ld trom age and others with scanty locks winch had been whi tened bv ihe rust of many sere of wu tiers in ih rear f ihem were a uumber f persons with musical instruments in their hi ml ami nearly fr i.ng the pulpit Â«:.** a gentleman u appearance with a beautiful and mosl interesting boy appa rently aboul jin years ol age i his arras whose youthful glance appeared to lie directed with fa scinating influence to ihe speaki r in ihe pulpit â€” tl rest ofthe audience were well dressed persons â€” any f ihem youths fro sixteen to eighteen years of age after .. taking ilus rapid survey and directing our attention to the speaker our pre possessions were at .....'.â– aseited in his favor he was apparently about 3fi or tu years i age t i an i una person i appearance wanning address musical vole and exhibiting great powers f elo cution ii was passing n review the different systems of theology of tt various sects and na tions of the world shewing much historical re search an.l evincing uch talent we were 1 lighted and congratulated each other .... having gone to u.e hall a revulsion of feelings howev er soon took pli.ee wl ou ins making a practi cal application of what he inui been reviewing ihe result f all lus fails and reasoning was infide lity iii its mosl undisguised naked and disgust ing form when he i'm sli 1 his address which was evidently a prepared one he resigned l.is place in il.e pulpit to i.i elderly inun of rude manners and most unprepossessing exterior who read fro the citizens op new-vork infant mind was ever polluted by the name of iw rii.iii.l'vv ; and the best consolation which i have for h loss is in the certain hope that lie is enjoy ing tl.iit immortality of happiness in another world which these miscalled philanthropists would de prive us of as soon us tl.o last sjieukcr closed his address i advanced lo tl.e pulpit and ... the mildest uml most courteous manlier requested of the two speakers permission to address a lew words to tl.e audience il reply to ihem i was refused i observed to then that it wi.s 1 public meeting ibr admission in to which we had paid at the door that they had slated hat the only true guide was rlasolf nn.l hod in boil their addresses challenged investiga tion inlo the correctness of their doctrines that their doctrines were to my mind su blasphemous aud so subversive f the principles of our govern ment thi i i wi.s anxious i'or in opportunity to re fute them that if their loenines could bear the test i reason ihey ought not to refuse investigation the younger of the speakers then said appoint any day this week ami we will hear you i repli ed that i w.is a stranger and lh.it my engagements required me lo leave the city .... my return to ll.il liuiure the next morning that their speeches had been prepared with care and that mv reply would be extemporaneous j unit i wished whilst the minds will ihe matrons of your city become proaelytes to doctrines which will teach them whilst straining their infants to their bosoms that the objects of their maternal care around whom all woman's fond est affections and devotions concentrate uio mere clods ofthe valley which like lhe brute boast will return lo their original nothingness and is lost iu the darkness l annihilation ! â€” ask these questions of yourselves when you retire to your chamber â€” in the silence of night â€” and wnh the world shut out ; and lol your hearts uud your conscience an swer them of the audi lice were warm from the glowing i press of iheir addresses la erase the impression before it bad become indurated l.y time i was again refused i appealed then to the old gentle men ou the front bench on lh i it of the pulpit who stilled thai they were trustees of the society they also refused ..,.* with much vehemence of man ner i then turned round uml appealed to the au dience i said to ihem ihi i i was a sl auger in their oily and had been attracted by curiosity to see tammany hall name associated wnh deino-l era v and with ills and freedom of speech lhal i was from the south hose citizens from misap prehension of lhe r ch ter in many in the bast were supposed lobe sod lhal lai ilu dinar ill in their religious opinions | hut bat the doctrines which i had heard that nighl â€¢ m so blasphemous in the character and so 1 ilixiog in their tendency â€” so subversive of tin .. .-.,,,,, ,..,â– > under which it will perhaps is sail that ih doctrine of these men are so revolting and ih.-ir numbers so low that inn lunger is to be apprehended nml that contemp i tonus silence is the li i answer delude not your i selves with the fallacy lay nol this flattering un tion to your ul their poison is an insidi ous one which while you slumber in fancied secu rity will penetrate lo the head's blis of all your institution and till the balm of li lead will i una ble lo effect a cure arouse lest you 11.11 into that oral s|.s thai knows no waking let public opinio awaken in all its energy i loll these mo ral incendiaries il.ai they shall m.t be permitted to throw iheir firebrand into your community and reduce to oue moral ruin your altars your temples and your domestic hearths infidelity is u weed which is nol congenial to nur soil it is nu exotic do not triiu splat i it inlo your oral garden ; it will extirpate every wholesome and beauteous plant ui iiil il tow into a ire wl.icl overshadowing vour noble city will wither aud destroy every thing within its influence establuha moral quarantine around your city illimitable in point of time and iw in.'l no ing unity can evade do this and you bwdl daeerve the ihank of your fellow citizens a i i uie the honor to is vour fellow citizen m e l fin ley 27th mav i's^'i m^m â– **Â»â– â– â– - we lived â€” so un local , ial order ami so utterly ut variance with all mv wonceived opinioos of religious obligations and aoral duty that i was cousin to enter my pro est iÂ»gia.i**t il.e ; that i had appealed to tl.e speakers and lo lhe trustees for permission which they bad refused i that i now appealed to ihem and asked will >/Â«Â» hi ar tne '"' the appeal w'as responded to fro the au di nice l.y il.e often repeated crv of â€¢' hear him before i could av i myself of lhis permission i was surrounded by ibe trustees who acoueed ...*' of l.s turbing iheir meeting and suid i should ol speak up i this time no i ic had baan offered ; â€” but wh.lsi madly remonstrating w.ih the speakers and trustee about llunr refus.il locouiplv w.ll th wish es of ihe audience a ,. u.l.tm un one of tl.o plooluw who was safely oi trenched behind iwu a hook seven i ver which were sung by most of t the audience principally by the females-accompani ___",| bv the inii-ic 1 iii-lrui.io'.ls the sun person then commenced and delivered an address wl.ielt nocupied about thirty minutes and which for gross rilmldry in pietv.a id tin most revolting profanity was never exceeded firing the wildest excesses of the french revolution i will not enter inlo the disgusting detail < ,' ll he said iÂ»n merely stat ii few of lus doctrine he boldly ridiculed i and denied ibe existence of a god ; declared with povrtv is not a shape but being ashamed of it i